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NBA – 2008 NBA Champion and 10x NBA All-star, the retired NBA player and future Hall of Fame Paul Pierce is in the limelight once again in basketball after addressing his sentiment in sports shows “The Jump” that he is not happy of his upcoming jersey retirements this coming February 11, 2018 at the TD Garden in Boston.

According to reports, Paul Pierce is not in favor of the idea that the Boston Celtics will give video tribute to former Celtics and now Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Isaiah Thomas on the night that the Celtics organization will hang his Boston Celtics jersey retirement in the rafters. Pierce wants his jersey retirement to be special like the recent jersey retirement of Kobe Bryant and don’t want to share the night with Isaiah Thomas.

The frustration of Pierce over his jersey retirement gain different reactions over the social media, some say that his demand is reasonable because he has been the franchise player of the Celtics for more than a decade where he play for almost his entire NBA career since 1998 – 2013 and even brought an NBA Champion in 2008 and one of the top Celtics player of all time and currently hold the 2nd most career points in Celtics history..

While other thinks Pierce is acting like a diva where some joked at him, that “You ain’t Kobe they don’t love you” popularized by Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors.

Pierce also said that if the Celtics will finalize their idea of giving Thomas his video tribute to Feb. 11? On the night that they will host the visiting Cavaliers for the final match of the regular season he would rather cancel their original planned of his Jersey retirements?